#1060778 ITP: pulsar-edit -- A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor (formerly Atom)

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Otto Kekäläinen
Date:
2025-11-29 16:54:18 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1060778#5
Date:
2024-01-14 07:31:50 UTC
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To:
* Package name    : pulsar-edit
  Version         : 1.112.1
  Upstream Contact: admin@pulsar-edit.dev
* URL             : https://pulsar-edit.dev/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor

Anyone can test the app using upstream package
https://download.pulsar-edit.dev/?os=linux&type=linux_deb which
installs everything in /opt/Pulsar/.

This is an Electron app and I am looking for advice from other NodeJS
and Electron app maintainers on how to package this properly in
Debian.

#1060778#12
Date:
2024-01-14 10:25:37 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Otto,

Quoting Otto Kekäläinen (2024-01-14 08:31:50)

As I understand it, Electron embeds a fork of Chromium, which may
explain why it has stayed an ITP for 7 years, despite interest from
several reverse dependencies. I cannot find any notes in the ITP
bugreport for Electron to support what share here, so possibly I am
mistaken.

In any case - since getting Electron itself packaged will likely be the
biggest blocker for this regardless of upstream and other support -
probably the best is to engage in the conversation at bug#842420, rather
than spawning a conversation about that here, which then later is
difficult to dig out for the benefit of all the other Electron apps.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas